Do you think
it was a trifling relief I gave to the poor, or a trifling sum that the rich
would have spent to escape their obligation? I pride myself not only on my
refusal of compromise and on my acquittal, but also on having enacted a
beneficial law and proved it such by experience. During the whole war, while the
squadrons were organized under my regulations, no trierarch made petition as
aggrieved, or appeared as a suppliant in the dockyard temple,dockyard temple: lit. temple of
（Artemis） Munichia: the “Bluejackets'
Church” at Peiraeus. or was imprisoned by the Admiralty,
and no ship was either abandoned at sea and lost to the state, or left in harbor
as unseaworthy.